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[–] nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

damn you think they would have just used cloud flare click on the bus

[–] lastlybutfirstly@lemmy.world 4 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Didn't you have to buy an account at Digg? If so, were the bots buying the accounts? And if so, who was buying them?

[–] titanicx@lemmy.zip 13 points 14 hours ago (12 children)

No you just had to request the account and then one would be provided to you when they open it up. I finally received my account a couple months ago. It was worse than it is here. I was hoping for some good alternatives to Reddit but overall Lemmy is only halfway there digg was only a third of the way there.

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[–] rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world 30 points 23 hours ago (6 children)

That reminds me, 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0.

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 5 points 12 hours ago

Apparently you can get that sequence from an AI bot if you ask it "correctly". But rules for thee and all that.

[–] badgermurphy@lemmy.world 4 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Its good that you have enough self-control to hand over your keys when you've had too much to drink.

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[–] SirEDCaLot@lemmy.today 24 points 19 hours ago (3 children)
[–] Anaeijon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 hours ago

I know about it, but didn't recognize the code. So I assumed, they encoded some text to make it harder to read. So I tried decoding it.

Turns out, if you decode this in UTF-16, it turns into a japanese sentence

契ȑ璝寣䇘앖噣삈

Which means (according to DeepL)

The sound of the wind rustling through the trees

And now I'm confused, why.

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[–] dan@upvote.au 17 points 19 hours ago (4 children)

lol I still have a screenshot of Digg from when every article on the home page had this key in it.

[–] eah@programming.dev 2 points 11 hours ago

Please share.

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[–] reksas@sopuli.xyz 21 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

blaming? shouldnt they have celebrated how much people utilize their beloved slopmachines?

[–] titanicx@lemmy.zip 7 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Dude an idiotic thing is one of the biggest sellers for dig was their stupid AI slop notifications that helped tell you what the article was about. I fucking hated that so much.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 8 hours ago

they are just hoping to datamine JUST like reddit to profit of its user, but worst. a corporate structure like diggs wouldnt eventually want to use AI so they can sell the data to GOOGLE, or other large AI to train on.

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[–] YesButActuallyMaybe@lemmy.ca 7 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

They should bring back google circles

[–] greatwhitebuffalo41@slrpnk.net 3 points 12 hours ago

THAT'S WHAT IT WAS CALLED! I've been trying to remember lol.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 4 points 14 hours ago

Unironically. But only on the condition they bring back Google from 2011

Welp I feel jumped. Welcome and nice to meet you all I guess.

[–] Evotech@lemmy.world 8 points 23 hours ago

These things need to grow from grassroots.

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